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In Love … With Myself
Online profiles are essentially shameless self-promotion – things you like, things you do, endless photos of yourself, etc. However, I find when my skinny friends post too many photos of themselves in swimsuits, or newly-engaged friends post endless photos of rings and partners, and my married friends post hundreds of photos of their new babies, I start to feel badly about myself. That’s not to say that I’m not doing cool things or that I want children (Any. Time. Soon.), but sites like Facebook have opened many doors to jealousy, self-loathing, and endless comparison of ourselves to others. Stop it! You know who would have been shamelessly good…
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“Lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death, And prophesying with accents terrible Of dire combustion and confused events”- William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 2.3)
Ok, let’s talk about the bizarre. Not the bizarre fascination so many people seem to have with reality shows… TOWIE, My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding anyone? Nor am I talking about the bizarre and scary world which has created the ‘Honey Boo Boo’ phenomenon. Even the Blobfish and the Aye-Aye lose their bizarreness factor when compared to what I’m going to be talking about! (You may want to Google Blobfish and Aye-Aye, just so you get an idea how bizarre this is going to get…) Ok, I think I’ve created enough suspense. Today folks, allow me to introduce you to Hieronymus Bosch: artist extraordinaire, and possessor of one heck of…
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Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Andy Warhol is easily one of the most interesting people to have ever lived. I say this having known next to nothing about him other than his over-exposed, colourful reproductions of 1960s-1980s popular culture, all of which I found excessive, superficial, and ridiculous, up until two hours ago. But wasn’t that essentially his intention, to explore popular culture? Spending most of his time at home as a young child and teenager, Warhol listened to the radio (and the adverts) and collected photos of film stars; he was greatly influenced by the growing popular culture of the 1950s. Starting his career as a commercial illustrator should come as no surprise to…
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